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TO MY MOTHER 


“All true Mothers are $ure 
as God's Lilies 99 






































































































RIGINATING 


in love of the 
subject of Easter and Lily 
Mythology and Symbolism up to tbe 
present time, I bave endeavored to com¬ 
pile m original language and treatment, 
tbe thoughts of many who have gone 
before, who have given us much to study 
in the two themes. Thus it is my hope 
that something of interest will be found 
m this liftle volume. 


Hearts M\&mx 


Tkere grew a liflle flower once 
Tkat klossomed m a day; 

Some said it would ever kloom. 

And some, twould fade away. 

Some said it was kappmess. 

And some said it was Spring, 

Some said it was grief and tears 
And many suck a tking. 

But still tke liflle flower kloomed 
And still it lived and tkrove. 

Men do call it "Summer Growtk,” 

But angels call it k "Love.” 

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CONTENTS 


EASTER and LILIES 

PART ONE—EASTER 

“History and Customs,” dating from the 
“Pesakh” Feast (or Passover) to “The 
Resurrection” and the present age. 

PART TWO—LILIES 

fKe realm they have occupied since their 
“Nativity” in Art, Literature and Myth¬ 
ology. 


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Slntro&urtum 



EAR by year tlie ancient 
feast ' , '■Pesakll ,, or Pass- 
over was observed by 
tbe Semitic race until 
there came tbat memor¬ 


able Passover wben “One'' was cruci¬ 
fied on Calvary, closing tbe boot 
Hebrew bistory forever. For tbe 
disciples of Christ, tbe Passover feast 
from tbis date took on a new signifi¬ 
cance in h; s death as follows: Christ 
our Passover is sacrificed for us, there¬ 
fore let us keep tbe feast, not with old 
leaven, neither with tbe leaven of 















malice nor wickedness, tut witk tke 
unleavened tread of sincerity and 
trutk.” Tkus transplanting tke Pass- 
over, wkick was celekrated on Satur¬ 
day, witk its new meaning into tke 
very centre of Aryan life to tke 
Easter commemorated on Sunday. 


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lEasfrr 

Jesus Christus unser Heiland 
der den Todt. 

Jesus Christ today is risen 

And o’er Death triumphant reigns; 

He has hurst the grave s strong prison. 
Leading sin herself in chains. 

Kyrie eleison 

For our sins the sinless Saviour 
Bear the heavy wrath of God; 
Reconciling us, that lavor 

Might he shown us through His hlood 

Kyrie eleison 

In His hands He hath forever 
Mercy, life and sm and death; 

Christ His people can deliver 
All who come to Him m faith. 

Kyrie eleison 

Martin Luther, from the Latin of John Huss 


Lilies are the fit emblem of the 
“Resurrection." Being buried, tbey 
bave arisen to bring joy and gladness 
to tbe heart of man, rising m tbe 
spring when Mother Nature begins to 
throb again with new life, after her 
long sleep during tbe cold, bleat days 
of winter. 

Imperial beauty! Fair, unrivaled One! 
^Vhat flower of earth has honor high 
as thine. 

To find its name on His unsullied Kps, 
Whose eye was light from Heaven. 


HE story of Easter is the 
story of humanity. 

Having its origin in 
primitive times, it has 
grown with humanity, 
adding fresh memorials with each gen¬ 
eration. It is not like the feasts that 
keep always within the circle of the 
race that gives them hirth; as it was 
first observed by the Semitic race, but 
has passed into Aryan lands, and 
therefore takes on an Aryan name. 
It originated under the ancient and 
obsolete Hebrew name “Pesakh," then 
into the Latin Pascha, which is still 
the Roman term of Easter; then the 



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word Eostre, the name of a Greet 
deity. ‘The. Saxon name Oster was 
derived from this and finally merged 
into the English name Paschal or 
Easter. 

c Ik& connection of the Hebrew Pe- 
sath Feast, and the English Paschal, 
can only he found in the meaning of 
the terms. 

c Ik& Pesath Feast originated in the 
far off ages when the Semitic people 
were not yet divided, hut as Hebrew, 
Arab, Phenician and Assyrian, pas¬ 
tured their flocts and herds together, 
their worship of the Great High 
Father was as simple as their life. If 


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Easter 


the evil spirit of the desert carried off 
one of the herd or swept off the 
flocks, he was propitiated with a sheep 
or a goat, and when the herds were 
kept safe from disease and harm, the 
shepherds gratitude found expression 
m the offering of an unblemished 
lamh. As the English Paschal is the 
epithet applied to the sacrificial lamh 
we can hut conjecture their connection. 

Thus it has keen for ages the great 
day of reverence and will go on for 
time immemorial. 

In the passing of the feast from the 
Semitic to the Aryan peoples and the 
interweaving of Semitic and Aryan 


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customs, we see tlie rise and decadence 
of customs tliat from time to time 
liave teen part of tte feast. Ttese 
customs originating during primeval 
days, expressed tte tigtest ttougtts of 
man, and in tteir transmission from 
fatter to son, ttey betoken tte influ¬ 
ence tkat eact generation exercised 
upon its successor. In their gradual 
decadence from grave earnest to simple 
reverence, ttey tell ho w each genera¬ 
tion has purified and ennotled the ideal 
of humanity hy replacing the ideas 
no longer worthy of man with those 
of higher conception. This ancient 
feast, laden with memories of the 


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Easter 


past, is a token of manifold heritage 
to he handed on through all time, as it 
is not like the feasts that have risen m 
later days and which have had no 
connection with the dead past. 

Though for each of us Easter has 
its special meaning; for all of us it 
must have this significance: the one 
and only link in ecclesiastical history 
which hinds us to the fathers who 
have passed away and to the children 
who are to come. 

As the word Easter derived from 
the Saxon Oster, which signifies ris¬ 
ing," and as this supposition is accepted 
hy all historians, Easter is in name as 
• 


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well as in reality termed tlie feast of 
tlie Resurrection, and tins anniversary 
is celebrated by all believers witb great 
joy, and bas been accounted tbe Queen 
of Festivals. Since tbis memorable 
day we bave sung one glad song: 

Hail! Hail! Hail! 

Tbe Lord is risen indeed! 

Tbe curse is made of none avail; 

Tbe sons of men are freed. 

Tbougb other holidays are cele¬ 
brated on some particular day of the 
year, Easter day is not, as it is one of 
the movable feasts not being fixed to 
one particular date. c Ike vernal equi¬ 
nox governs this date and the rule is 
as follows: 


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Easter 


Easter Jay is always tke first Sun- 
Jay after tke full moon wlncli kappens 
upon or next after tlie twenty-first 
Jay of Marck, and if tke full moon 
kappens upon a SunJay, Easter Jay 
comes tke SunJay after. The festival 
may tkus ke as early as Marck twen- 
ty-seconJ or as late as April twenty- 
fiftk. In tke year seventeen kunJreJ 
and sixty-one, and in tke year eigk- 
teen kunJreJ and eigkteen, Easter fell 
on Marck twenty-seconJ, tut neitker 
in tkis nor in tke following century 
will tkis reoccur. 

In nineteen tkirteen, kowever, it 
will fall on Marck twenty-tkirJ, as 


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it did in eighteen forty-five and 
eighteen fifty-six. 

When the date of Easter is finally 
found it determines a long series 
ecclesiastical days from Ash Wednes- 
day to Trinity Sunday. This period 
of “forty days and forty nights" is 
called the Lenten Season, and all social 
functions are supposed to cease, and 
followers of society have a period of 
comparative quiet and restfulness 
which ends with Easter day and is 
the beginning of the Spring Season, 
when mankind, as well as nature, decks 
itself m Spring attire. 


Patfe Twelve 


Easter 


Spring ts 

Ok, tk© Spring, tke kountiful Spring, 

Ske skmetk and smiletk on every tkmg. 

For lo! No sooner kave tke ckills 
witkdrawn, 

Tkan tke kngkt grass is tufted on tke lawn; 
Tke lily stalk springs up in tke kowers 
And kursts tke windows of its kuds 
in flowers. 

AA^itk song tke kosoms of tke kirds run o'er; 
Tke rokm calls; Spring is at tke door. 


Tkere were many beautiful customs 
during primitive times in connection 
witk tkis day; one particularly so, 
was for Cknstians to salute eack otker 
witk tke words reverently spoken : 

“Cknst is risen.' 


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like person saluted would in turn 
reply: 

“Christ is risen indeed. 

This custom is still retained hy the 
followers of the Greek Church, the 
world over. 

Then there was the ceremony 
tlie Holy Sepulchre, originating in 
Jerusalem, having its rise in the old 
Mystery plays. This was considered 
one of the most beautiful and touch¬ 
ing rites in ancient church ceremonials. 
It appertains to the hurial of the 
cross, as the cross after its adoration 
on Good Friday was washed with 
wine and water, and this ablution 


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Easter 


given to the people to drink after the 
communion, in memory of the hlood 
and water which flowed from the 
side of the Crucified Red eemer. 
After this the cross was carried to the 
Sepulchre to remain there until Easter 
Morn, when it was triumphantly 
taken to the high alter of the church. 
This custom was also observed in 
many parts of England. 

The Sepulchre, though only in use 
for three days of the year, was a 
most beautiful and costly structure, 
surrounded by a wealth of adornment 
consisting of floral offerings and 
thirteen tapers supposed to represent 


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Christ and. His Apostles; these tapers 
burning continuously around the Sep¬ 
ulchre at Passion-tyde until the 
Lord's Resurrection on Easter day. 

Christ is risen. Alleluia! 

How the joyous angel host 
Fill glad Heaven with anthems glorious, 
Christ is risen, o'er death victorious. 
Saving them whom sin had lost. 
Mighty Victor, gentle Saviour, 

^Ve adore and love Thee most. 

Christ is risen. Alleluia! 

In the hour of hitter pain 
Loving mercy, hlest assurance. 
Strengthening to a meek endurance. 
Friend most true will He remain. 
Gracious is the smile He weareth. 

May we e er His love retain! 


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Easter 


Christ is risen. Alleluia! 

Breathes the organ’s solemn tone. 
While the heart trills out in gladness 
Hopes’ sweet flowers reft of sadness. 

On the cross have lilies blown 
O'er the pure white marhle altar. 
Where He feedeth souls His own. 

Christ is risen. Alleluia! 

Heath’s appalling dread is o'er; 
Trusting heart on him relying. 

It shall waft thee, hlest in dying. 

Gently to the heavenly shore. 

In His presence love ahideth, 

Joy and peace reign evermore. 

Quite the most notable event which, 
took place on Good Friday m those 
ancient days, was a part of the Mys¬ 
tery play representing the scenes lm- 


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mediately previous to, during and 
after the Crucifixion. Tkis form of 
devotion seems to us in this enlightened 
age a relic of barbarism; but to the 
people who portrayed and witnessed 
them, just the reverse, as they partici¬ 
pated in this form of worship with 
the utmost reverence and sincerity. 

Thus we find that during Holy 
^Veek and Easter many of the cere¬ 
monies conducted were suggestive of 
anything but the humility which 
Christ on Earth'' wished to illus¬ 
trate and encourage m His disciples. 

With love and gentle humilty. 

He walked in this world of the weary 
As if He loved it the most, 

A lowly, meek, unostentatious Host. 


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ASTER is commemor¬ 
ated with great cere¬ 
mony in Jerusalem, it 
being tbe most important 
episode occurring during 
the year. It is but natural tbat it 
should be idealized in tins oriental 
city, more tban any other city in the 
world, as it was here tbe great trag¬ 
edy of tbe Crucifixion was enacted. 
Here tbe “Crucified One” triumphed 
over His enemies and death itself by 
His glorious resurrection. 

In tbe church of the Holy Sep¬ 
ulchre the Greeks bear in procession 
a piece of brocade embroidered with 



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a representation of the body of our 
Saviour to the tomb, which, after a 
short repose there, is carried into the 
Greek Chappel. The entire Easter 
service is conducted m this church, 
where thousands take part m the 
services. Tourists who happen to he 
in the vicinity of the Holy City dur¬ 
ing Passion-tyde, flock into the city 
to witness the ceremonials, and the 
community is indeed taxed to the ut¬ 
most in accommodating its visitors. It 
is one of the most solemn and rever¬ 
ent sights to he seen in the world, and 
each individual cannot fail to he im¬ 
pressed with the thought inspired in 
the lines: 


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“Sharp was the wreath of thorns 
Around His suffering krow; 

But glory rick kis kead adorns. 

And angels crown kim now.” 

Anotker great sigkt on tke conti¬ 
nent of special interest is at Rome 
where Easter Sunday is also celebrated 
with elaborate ceremony; tbe Pope 
officiating on tbis day at early mass in 
St. Peter's Cathedral, with every im¬ 
posing ceremony that can be devised. 
Years ago tbe day was ushered in 
with tbe firing of cannons from tbe 
Castle of St. Angelo, and at an early 
hour an immense concourse of people 
wends its way toward St. Peter s 


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whose interior is magnificently dec¬ 
orated with floral offerings and count¬ 
less candles in honor of the occasion. 
On the evening of Easter day, the 
dome and other exterior parts of St. 
Peter’s are beautifully illuminated. 

This day “Easter" signifying the 
Lord’s Resurrection, and the day 
called “Annunciation, are perhaps 
the two greatest feast days of the 
Roman Catholic church and the 
church of old England. In England 
the “Annunciation" is called “Lady 
Day;" in France, “Notre Dame de 
Mars." 


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Easter 


UJary 

M. L. B. 

Mother of Christ! what dream of fame 
Could paint a lot so high as thine? 

How meanly sounds earth's proudest name 
Beside a title so divine. 

In every nation, age and clime 

Where His religion has been taught. 
Thy name has heen with thoughts sublime 
With holy love and sweetness fraught. 

O! who was honored e er like thee? 

What heart was e’er so sorely tried? 
Raised from thy lowly lot to he 
The mother of the Crucified. 

Hail! highly favored; who upon thy breast 
Did st lull the infant Son of God to rest. 


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O the people of Tyrol, 
Easter lias always been, 
and is still one of tbe 
greatest feasts of tbe 
year. The Resurrec¬ 
tion of Christ is to them tbe tangible 
proof of revelation, and tbis season is 
honored by these people of the moun¬ 
tains m a joyous, though reverent, 
manner. There is not one trace of 
unbelief m this land which effete civ¬ 
ilization has touched but lightly. 

Accompanied by crowds of child¬ 
ren, whose wide brimmed hats are 
wreathed with flowers; bands of gaily 
aflired musicians with their guitars 



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traverse the valleys singing the beauti¬ 
ful Easter carols, and as they pass the 
humhle co#ages, the peasants come 
forth to join m the choruses, rejoicing 
m this glad anniversary of the Res¬ 
urrection of Christ the Redeemer. 
In their native language they rejoice 
in the hearty chorus: 

“This day he grateful homage paid. 

And loud hosannas sung; 

Let gladness dwell in every heart. 

And praise on every tongue. 

Following this, the musicians are 
refreshed with cake and wine; and to 
the children who bring their baskets 
with them, the good “haus-frau freely 


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gives tke kard koiled eggs dyed witk 
tke kngktest coloring, many °f wkick 
kave suitakle mottoes and pictures 
printed upon tkem. Xkus joyfully 
ckildren and musicians pass on from 
co#age to cofiage, spreading tke glad 
tidings of tke risen Lord, m tkis 
prefiy simple manner, witk kearts ligkt 
as down. 


M 


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Easter 


UST wlien tbe offering 
of Pascb or Pascbal eggs 
originated, we cannot 
authentically state, but 
tbey bave formed a part 
of Easter offerings for centuries past 
wbicb is still tbe custom in all Aryan 
lands. Xbere was a belief m ancient 
times tbat eggs laid during Passover 
or Easter, bad a special virtue. Xbis, 
no doubt, was construed from tbe 
Egyptian belief tbat '"‘eggs were beld 
by these people as a sacred emblem of 
tbe restoration of mankind after tbe 
Deluge/' Tbe Hebrews adopted tbis 
belief to suit tbe circumstances of 



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their history in their departure from 
the land of Egypt, as they were used 
m the feast of the Passover as well as 
the Paschal Lamb. 

Another theory of one of the 
early historians in referring to the re¬ 
lation of the egg with Easter, was: 
"an emblem of the rising up (meaning 
resurrection) out of the grave, m the 
same manner as the chick, entombed 
as it were m the egg, is brought m due 
time to life. Therefore it seems as if 
the egg were intended for a religious 
symbol after the days of mortification 
and abstinence were over, and festiv¬ 
ity had taken place; and as an emblem 


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of the resurrection of life, certified 
to us by tbe resurrection from tbe tomb 
of death to life. At any rate, Christ¬ 
ians have used it on this day as a means 
of illustrating the elements of future 
life; as an emblem of the resurrection. 

< The. old Easter customs regarding 
the Easter Egg which we still retain 
vary in different parts of the world. 
At one time the custom of distributing 
the ’’pace'' or “pasche ege ' was uni¬ 
versal among Christians, hut is now 
only observed by children and the 
peasantry of foreign countries. In 
various parts of England, Ireland, Ger¬ 
many and France the following custom 


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is still practiced by tbe peasants: to 
roll about, throw, and fina lly eat tbe 
eggs, as tbe virtue of tbe egg to tbem 
means strength, and therefore must be 
devoured in numbers, forgetting tbe 
maxim that “Too much of a good 
thing is more than enough. Therefore 
many of them, in place of partaking 
strength, make themselves ill for days. 



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Easter 


HE Easter tare in Ger- 
many and also in 
America, is almost as 
important a figure in 
nursery lore as tke 
Ckristmas St. Nickolas. Children 
are taught to believe if tkey are good 
and obedient to tkeir parents and lov¬ 
ing with one another, tkat when tkey 
are tucked snugly into bed on Easter 
Eve. a white hare will steal into tke 
house and hide away in oil corners, 
many beautifully colored eggs for each 
“Kinderkin." Many a weary liftle 
head after touching its pillow cannot 
woo slumber m the endeavor to listen 



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for the coming of the Easter rabhit. 
When their tired eyelids finally droop 
into the sleep of the innocent and they 
waken on Easter morning to find their 
wonderful blue, green, red and oft- 
times tn-colored eggs, and in wonder 
ask one another in surprise, “Dili you 
see the white hare? “No; I guess 
he corned in when we was all a seepin' 
hut wasn't he nice to fetch us, every 
one, these pre#y eggs?" So let this 
simple belief go on among the dear 
li#le ones, singing their glad hosannas. 

“Sing, children, smg. 

The lilies white you bring. 

That bi#er days shall cease 
In warmth and light and peace; 

For winter yields to spring, 

Smg, litlle children, sing.” 


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HE relation between 

Easter and tbe bare 

springs from tbe laser's 
connection witb tbe 
moon. As tbe date 

of Easter depends upon tbe moon it is 

in a sense a lunar holiday. 



From very ancient times tbe bare 
bas been a symbol for tbe moon for 
many reasons. As tbe moon sbmes at 
m gbt, so tbe bare, being a nocturnal 
animal, comes out at mgbt to feed. 
Also tbe bare is born open-eyed, un¬ 
like tbe rabbits wbicb are born blind. 
Hence tbe bare born witb open eyes, 
was fabled never to close tbem, and as 


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the moon when full, was the open-eyed 
watcher of the skies at night, we have 
the connection m ancient myth. In 
America and some foreign countries, 
the hare is very scarce and almost ex¬ 
tinct, therefore has heen replaced hy 
its near relation, the rahhit, in carry¬ 
ing out this Easter custom of the 
distribution of eggs to the liflle ones. 

In Germany, at times instead of 
exchanging eggs with one another, an 
emblematical print is occasionally pre¬ 
sented. In the Print Room of the 
British Museum, one of these is pre¬ 
served. In this picture three hens are 
represented as upholding a basket in 


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wkick tkere are tkree eggs ornamented 
with representations illustrative of tke 
Resurrection as Faitk, Hope and 
Ckarity. Beneatk tins picture are 
tke following lines m German: 

“Alle gute Ding smd drei. 

Drum sckenk lck dir drei Oster Ey. 
Glauk und Holfnung, samkt der Liek, 
Niemals auss dem Herzen sckiek 
Glauk der Kirck, vertrau auf Gott, 

Lieke Ikn kis m den Todt. 

Translated tkey read: 

“All good tkmgs are tkree, 

Tkerefore I present you tkree Easter eggs, 
Faitk and Hope, togetker witk Ckarity. 
Never lose from tke keart 
Faitk to tke Ckurck: kope m God, 

And love Him to tky deatk. 


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N universal custom and 
one of great antiquity, 
is tke taking on Good 
Friday of what is 
now styled tke “Hot 
Cross Bun/' c Ikc origin of tke 

Good Friday bun can be traced 
to tbe sacred cakes styled “Boun" 
wbicb were offered at tbe Arkite 
Temples, upon eacb seventh day. 
This species of sacred bread was 
presented to tbe gods in those days as 
a means of consecration. They were 
generally purchased at the entrance to 
the temple. In speaking of this offer¬ 
ing, it has been described in the ex¬ 
pression : 



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Easter 


He offered one of tk e sacred Lika 
called a Bouse, which was made of 
fine flour and honey, marked with a 
cross/' 

Again, it lias keen described as a 
cake witk a representation of two 
korns, also as small loaves of bread, 
long and skarp at kotk ends. It was 
believed tbat tbis certain kind of 
bread bad tbe virtue of never growing 
moldy, as m tbe lines from Poor 
Robin's Almanack: 

“Good Friday comes tbis month, tbe old 
woman runs 

Witb one or two a-penny, hot-cross 
buns. 


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^Vhose virtue it is if you believe what s 
said 

They'll not grow moldy like the common 
bread.” 

There was an old belief m England 
that tbe observance of tbe custom of 
eating buns on Good Friday protects 
tbe bouse from fire and many other 
virtues are afiributed to tbis custom. 

In Chelsea, tbe greatest places of 
afiraction on Good Friday were tbe 
two ""Royal Bun Houses/' Here 
people came to purchase tke ' "royal 
hot-cross, Chelsea buns," and one 
would hear the vendors crying all day 
long: 


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One a penny tuns; 

Two a penny buns; 

One a penny, two a penny. 

Hot -cross buns. 

Though we still retain this old cus¬ 
tom of the Good Friday bun, it is 
only m name and form, for its sacred 
uses are no more m existence. 

A peculiar form of amusement per¬ 
formed on Easter Monday and Tues¬ 
day by the village youths and maidens 
of E ngland, was the act of what was 
called “Lifting or Heaving. On 
Monday a party of young men enter 
every house they can, bringing a large 
chair m which they force each female 


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in turn to be seated, tben lift ber up 
tliree times with loud huzzas. For 
this, the reward of a chaste salute is 
claimed. The following day the 
women claim this privilege and pursue 
it m the same manner, with this ad¬ 
dition, that while on their way, they 
accost every man whom they meet and 
“raise him up m sight of everyone. 
As this custom is indulged m with 
sincerity and innocence, it was no 
doubt meant by these simple people as 
a token; “in memoriam Christ being 
raised up from the grave/’ 


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Easter 


NTE of tke most ludicrous 
beliefs in old England 
was, tbat if one would 
rise at four in tbe morn- 
mg, one would see tbe 
sun dance, in honor of tbe R esurrec- 
tion. Wbat a weak, superstitious 
error, for tbe sun neither works nor 
plays more on this day than any other. 
But as Easter is tbe herald of Spring¬ 
time, tbe sun may shine brighter on that 
day than on the cold dreary days that 
have passed. We find this notion 
alluded to m a rare, old book entitled: 
Recreation for Ingenious Head Pieces, 
in an old ballad that runs: 



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“But Dick, ske dances suck a way. 

No sun upon an Easter day 
Is kalf so fine a sigkt.” 

Anotker superstition wkick is still 
followed, not only ky tke “eternal 
femininekut ky man in general, is 
tke donning of new apparel, for on 
Easter day one must at least kave 
some part of one s dress krand-new 
so tkat good fortune may follow 
tkrougkout tke year; tkerefore : 

“At Easter let your clotkes te new 
Or else ke sure you will it rue.” 

Or as Mr. Barnes, tke Dorcestskire 
poet says; 


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Easter 


"Laste Easter, I put on my Hue 
Frock cuot, tlie vust time, vier new; 
wr yaller buttons aal o' brass 
Tbat glittered in tbe zun lik glass; 
Bekiaze twer Easter Zunday.” 

And so, at Easter-tyde, when tlie 
glad, sunslnny days have come, it is 
but natural tbat we clotbe ourselves 
with fresh afiire as Mother Nature 
decks herself in bright array. And; 

"Let us not bring upon this joyful morning 

Dead myrrh and l spices for our Lord s 
adorning. 

Nor any lifeless thing. 

Our gifts shall be the fragrance and the 
splendor 

Of living flowers, m breathing beauty 
tender. 

The glory of the Spring. 


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And witk myrrk, ok, put away tke leaven 
Of malice, katred, injuries unforgiven. 
And cold and lifeless form. 

Still witk lilies, deeds of mercy krmging. 
And fervent prayers and praises upward 
springing 

Witk kopes, pure, kngkt and warm. 

And so witk tke passing of time 
we kave esckewed tke various super¬ 
stitious customs, rising to tke full com- 
prekension of tke significance of 
Easter, tke Great Sakkatk of tkis age, 
wkick kas taken on tke real spiritual 
meaning to us as tke anniversary of tke 
Risen Cknst, tke Redeemer of Man¬ 
kind. The devotion of His people 
finds expression m many modes of 
worskip. < Tke tkankful soul gives 


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vent m the outlet of joyous Easter 
Carols sung with sincere praise of 
“One, tlie Crucified. How our 
liearts well up in gratitude to Him as 
our Saviour, upon entering His abode 
on Easter Morn, adorned witb fresli 
sweet flowers and foliage so profuse 
that it becomes a veritable firmament 
of spring sweetness, proclaiming the 
living Jesus. Let our hearts be afluned 
to the song: 

“So let this Easter shed a fragrant beauty 
O’ er many a day of dull and cheerless duty. 
And light thy wintry way; 

Till rest is won and patience smiling 
faintly. 

Upon thy breast shall lay her lilies saintly. 
To hail Heavens Easter Day. 


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Sbsurmium 


Eva Williams Best 

As in the mire of earth 

God placed the seed 

Of waxen lilies, sweet and fair and pure 

As purity itself— bo marvelous 

Each blossom seems a living, tender 
thought 

Of that Great Love which whispers to 
our hearts 

The holy truth, that, as in grime and 
muck 

The seeds of what we dimly recognize 

As thoughts of God, may wait the Sun 
of Love. 

To start them into life as radiant 

And fragrant lilies of an earthly field. 


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So, m tlie hearts of each and all of us 

A Something'' lives that links us to the 
Lord, 

And with Him, mortals suffer martyrdom 

Are crucified, die and are huried; then 

From our old selves, that put away their 
sms 

As lilies push aside the soil of earth. 

We rise toward the glory of the Light 

That hums upon us from the Sun of Love 

Whose Source is hidden from our mortal 
eyes. 

Yet whose effulgence warms and blesses us. 

And brings to full and perfect blossoming 

The humblest, lowliest being of us all. 

Thus touched and wakened and redeemed 
by Love 

That teacheth wisdom, though rooted deep 


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In eartk s dark soil, will one day grow and 
bloom 

In an immortal beauty spreading far 

Tke sweetness of our lives as lilies do. 

\ 

For, taugkt ky God s own parable, we know 

Xkat Migkty Love, itself katk tkougkt 
of us, 

And placed us m tke garden of tke world 
Tkat we may in His own good time become 
God e Resurrection Lilies. 



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OT alone for tlieir purity 
grace and elegance are 
tlie lilies entitled t o 
more tlian passing no¬ 
tice, tut for tte place 
ttey occupy m the realm of sentiment 
poetry and art. From tte time of 
Solomon to tte present day, tte teauty 
and delicacy of tte lily tas teen cele- 
trated m all ages. Tte Plain of 
Staron, starred witt lilies in our 
Saviour s time, is to-day a dreary 
solitary waste and we accept tte 
legend ttat tear drops glisten on tte 
troken tearted pillars, as once a year 
ttey weep o er tte glory departed. 



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One of the first spring lilies the 

world over is the wild Trillium, 

known also as the “Wood Lily, and 

• • 

it springs up, 

Aa hope, whose life's sharp Inverness 
relieves 

A blossom spire, greets the sky serene. 

Clustered with creamy bells that chime 
sweet breves 

In calm dominion o er woodland scene. 



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Lilies 


E lily is tlie emblem 
of purity and on ac¬ 
count of its purity and 
grace is used m mystic 
representations of the 
Blessed Vlrgm. In Christian Art 

it is employed in pictures of tke 
Annunciation, and in tke enthrone¬ 
ment of tke Holy Child. Though 
especially connected with associations 
of the Mother of our Lord, the legend 
of the lily does not relate primarily 
to the Virgin Mary. 

In all ancient story it is dedicated 

to St. Catharine whose name is from 
the Greek “Kaoapos,” which signifies 
pure and undefiled. 



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As the mspirer of wisdom and 
good counsel in time of need, she is 
said to he the patron saint of these 
pure flowers. 

.from full hands scafier ye 

unwithering lilies and so doing cast 
Purity overhead, and round on all 
sides.' 

Purg. XXX.20. 

We find in the legend of the vision 
of St. Catharine that angels came 
forth to meet her, wearing garlands 
of white lilies. 



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HROUGH tkis flower, 
“Costis, the Emperor 
of Alexandria,” who 
was the father of St. 
Catharine, and de¬ 
voted to this extraordinarily gifted 
daughter, became converted to Chris¬ 
tianity. He continually refused to 
listen to her argument drawn from 
Plato, Aristotle and the Gospels, until 
one night he had a vision himself 
and his daughter with whom he was 
walking. Suddenly the pathway 
diverged, one leading down a flowery 
vale and the other up a steep and 
stony incline. While he hesitated 



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between tlie two ways, Catharine 
turned up the steep and stony path 
where she disappeared from view. 
Unahle to determine which direction 
to follow, he was afiracted hy a deli¬ 
cate and subtle perfume floating to 
him from some distant field of white 
objects far up the stony path, which 
was dimly illuminated from tlie sum¬ 
mit of the hill. He quickly turned 
up the incline until he found himself 
m a garden of white lilies, stretching 
far up to the portals of a golden gate¬ 
way which seemed to his enchanted 
gaze the entrance to Paradise. Sink¬ 
ing down in the midst of these mirac- 


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ulously scented lilies, Costis,bewildered 
and overcome witb penitence, resolved 
to renounce bis beatben gods and serve 
tbe only true Cbnst. 

As be lay tbus, Catharine came 
forth from tbe gateway and led him 
by tbe hand into the Golden City. 

And so tbe scentless lily became 
henceforth tbe sweetest of flowers 
and was dedicated to St. Catharine, 
tbe martyred virgin. 

“ . . . . tbe lilies, by whose odor known 
The way of life was followed. 


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MONG all flowers the 
lily is tlie most stately 
and aflractive and as 
Queen reigns majestic* 
ally over tliem. 

Of about fifty known species, tlie 
greater part of them are hardy enough 
to hear the rigors of a New England 
winter. Just how the lily found its 
way into this Country, we cannot 
say with certainty, hut it was prob¬ 
ably one of the plants brought into 
England from Palestine, by the early 
Crusaders. 

Their stately style and elegant, 
gaily colored and often perfumed 



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flowers are becoming befler known 
and appreciated. All nations agree 
in making tbe Lily tbe symbol of 
purity and modesty; it is certainly tbe 
fit aflribute of beauty. 

"Tb« Lily's height bespake command. 

A perfumed, fairy flower, 

Sbe seemed designed for Flora s band, 
Tbe sceptre <rf ber power. 

In tbe middle ages tbe flower was 
taken as tbe symbol of heavenly 
purity, contrasted witb tbe rose of 
Aphrodite wbicb was tbe symbol in 
those days of earthly pleasures. 

c Ike lily was largely employed 
throughout tbe time of tbe Greeks 
and Romans in all their festivals; it 


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was also their custom to place crowns 
of Lil ies upon the heads of th eir 
brides, as emblems of purity and 
abundance. 

Ah! See the pure, white lilies, how 
sweetly 

They crown the virgin trow of 
bashful modesty. 

< Tkc heathen nations regarded it so 
highly as to consecrate its glorious 
beauty to Juno, as it was believed by 
them that Jupiter m order to mate 
his son immortal, put him to the 
breast of Juno while she was asleep, 
and the milt which was spilled as the 
child withdrew from her, formed the 
“Milky Way in the heavens'' and 


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Ltltcs 


was tlie origin of tins beautiful 
flower, consequently it was some¬ 
times called “Juno's Rose.'' 

Juno's rose, most beauteous of flowers. 
Darling of tbe early bowers. 

E'en tbe gods for tbee bave places. 
Bestowing tbee upon tbe loveliest of graces. 

Lilies also take part m Folk tales 
as tbe “Golden Lily'' in tbe story of 
tbe “Twelve Brothers,'' where a lifile 
girl goes into tbe garden and finds 
twelve Lilies growing there, and 
thinking to please her brothers by pre¬ 
senting them each with one, she plucks 
them and instantly her brothers change 
into ravens. 


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RIMM, the famous Ger¬ 
man writer of fairy 
tales, tells us that m 
some Hessian townships 
the landowners have to 
pay a hunch of Lilies every year for 
rent, and it is also customary for 
youths and maidens of Hesse to go to 
a cavern called the Hollow Stone, on 
every Easter Monday to offer Lilies 
in honor of the Virgin Mary, it be¬ 
ing especially the Virgin's flower. 

During the twelfth and thirteenth 
Centuries many Chapels dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary, were erected in 
Engl and, °f which the architectural 



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ornament was principally the Lily. 
and in tlie season when lilies were in 
bloom, these Lady chapels were 
beautifully decorated with them. 

The flower was first directly con¬ 
nected with the Vlrgm m the story of 
her Assumption, a story which was 
not generally accepted until the begin¬ 
ning of the fifth Century. The 
story was that the Apostles upon vis¬ 
iting the grave in which they laid the 
Mother of Jesus, found it open the third 
day after her interment, and filled 
with a growth of white Lilies and 
Roses; therefore, these flowers became 
her special emblems in accordance 
with the text: 


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“I am the Rose of Sharon, and 
the Lily of the Valley.' 

Usually the flower which appears 
m connection with the Virgin is the 
common white Lily of our gardens, 
which appears m July and August, 
The hotannical term is Lilium Candi- 
dum, but it is usually styled Madonna 
Lily or St. Joseph s Lily. 

“Madonna Lily, with vesture fair as angels 
wings. 

In lovely innocence like childhood sweet; 

Beautiful adornment, this flower brings. 

The Mother of Jesus, these Spring 
messengers greet.” 


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T seems strange tliat the 
native country of this 
Lily is still a mafter of 
dispute. It is generally 
though doubtfully re¬ 
garded as native of the Holy Land, 
that being one of the reasons it is 
thought peculiarly appropriate for the 
Virgin s use. Again it has been sug¬ 
gested to have been native of this 
Country; this however, can scarcely he 
true, as it appears in many Italian and 
Flemish pictures of earlier date than 
the discovery of this Country. 

In pictures of the Annunciation, 
the vase of lilies is always at the side 



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of the Virgin. In otlier pictures and 
statues we see her holding the “Lily of 
the Valley" among thorns. Again in 
representations of the Annunciation 
the Virgin Mary is shown kneeling or 
seated at a table, with the lily—her 
emblem—placed between her and the 
Angel Gabriel, who holds in his hand 
a sceptre surmounted by a fleur de lis 
on a lily stalk. In other pictures, the 
Holy Spirit represented as a dove is 
seen descending toward the Virgin 
Mary, while in communion with the 
purity and beauty of the lily. 

It was often called “Lady Lily;" 
gaming this name from the Virgin 


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whose two strongest characteristics 
were purity and beauty, and it was 
spoken of as 

“The Lady Lily looking gently down. 
Clad, tut with the lawn of almost 
naked white." 

It is still a custom m some villages 
and towns of England for li#le girls 
to carry a doll on the Maypole or m 
a basket surrounded hy lilies, ignorant 
of the fact that it was a habit their 
ancestors had of carrying about the 
image of the Virgin Mary. 


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N the Continent there is 
an Order of the “Bles¬ 
sed Lady of the Lily' 
which is said to have 
heen instituted by Gar¬ 
cia, the fourth King of Navarre, on 
account of an image of the Virgin 
Mary which was found issuing from 
a Lily m the time of the King s 
serious illness, who thereupon, recov¬ 
ered his health and in gratitude insti¬ 
tuted this Knighthood, and each 
member wears a silver Lily upon his 
breast, and a chain about Ins neck 
with the Gothic le#er “M," signify¬ 
ing Mary. 



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In the Instory of Italy and Ger¬ 
many between tke eleventh and four¬ 
teenth Centuries, there were two 
parties, the Guelphs and the Ghibel- 
lines; the badge of the former was the 
red Lily, the white Lily being claimed 
by the laffer, just as the white and 
red roses were worn by the Houses 
of Lancaster and York, of England. 

Chaucer speaks of it m his day as 
belonging to armorial bearings as 

"Upon his crest he bear toure. 

And therein stiked a lily floure. 

In Hebrew, the name Susanna means 
Lily, and Shushan of scripture fame 
was named after this flower, either 
because it grew where the City was 


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built or because tbe appearance of tbe 
town was sucb as to suggest tbe com¬ 
parison. It was believed by tbe Jews 
that tbe use of tbe lily would counter¬ 
act all witchcraft and enchantment, and 
was used in times of public rejoicing. 

Tbe Lotus, tbe sacred flower of tbe 
East to-day, is a Lily, and during tbe 
days of Egypt s glory was one of tbe 
most highly prized productions, and 
tbe bell capitals with which tbe build¬ 
ings were adorned, were modelled 
after this flower. This no doubt 
means tbe Calla Lily, it being a native 
of tbe Nile river, and is tbe Egyp¬ 
tian’s emblematic mark, 

“Of joy immortal and of pure affection. 


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E are told that for cent¬ 
uries the Lily and the 
Rose have heen em¬ 
blematic of ‘"'Mother 
and Son, which typi¬ 
cal meaning was well understood when 
the Lily was adopted into the shield 
of Normandy, and the Rose in 
that of England, in the old fighting 
days when the dukes of Normandy 
took possession of the Kingdom of 
England. From this time the Lily or 
Fleur de Lys, became the emblem of 
the royal family of Bourbon m 
France, and the eldest son of the 
King of France, who was styled the 



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Dauphin, was often fondly spoken of 
as the “Lily of France,' just as the 
Prince of Wales was termed the 
“Rose of Expectancy of England, 
the Rose being her emblem. 

Another legend of ancient history 
was the remarkable one of the Fleur 
de Lys in connection with the demise 
of a devout though unlearned knight, 
who when offering his prayers to the 
Holy Moth er could remember hut the 
two Latin words, “Ave Maria." 
Night and day his supplication con¬ 
tinued and when the good old man 
died and was buried in the Chapel 
yard of the convent a plant of Fleur 


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de Lys sprang up from his grave which 
displayed on every flower m golden 
leffers the words, “Ave Maria." 
This was accepted as a proof that his 
brief hut earnest prayers for salvation 
had teen granted hy the mercy af the 
Virgin s interception, therefore the 
monks hastened to open the grave and 
found that the root of the plant rested 
on the lips of the Holy Knight, whose 
body lay moldermg there. 



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HERE are many iegends 
concerning tbe Fleur de 
Lys, but legends are re¬ 
flections of facts and 
often serve to prove tbe 
past existence of certain customs about 
wbicb bistory is silent. But there is 
still some doubt as to tbe real identity 
of tbe FI eur de Lys, tbe flower wbi cb 
bas played a very important part m 
tbe bistory of France. 

The Iris is undoubtedly tbe original 
of tbe Fleur de Lys, as it is easily 
recognized in many pieces of sculpture 
in wbicb tbe Fleur de Lys was intro¬ 
duced, and it is generally considered 
tbat tbe Fleur de Lys is a corruption 



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of Fleur de Luce, and tins m turn a 
corruption of Fleur de Louis, and that 
the flower itself was tke common 
purple Ins, and not tke wkite Lily. 
Tkis is gathered from the tradition 
tkat wken Louis XII, King of France, 
started on kis crusade to tke Holy 
Land m tke twelfth Century, ke chose 
tke purple Iris as kis emklem; thence¬ 
forth, it became tke Fleur de Louis, 
subsequently Fleur de Lucca, and 
finally Fleur de Lys. Some writers 
think tkat ke chose tke white Lily as 
kis emklem and tkat tke Iris was called 
tke flower of delights or delices, as it 
was said tkat after a certain baffle 


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fought hy the Crusaders, their banner 
was found to he covered with white 
flowers. 

Shakespeare connects the Fleur de 
Lys with the Lily, as m the Winter s 
Tale, he depicts Perdita as ashing for 
flowers with which to make a garland, 
thus: 

“Bold oxlips and The Crown Imperial, 
Lilies of all kinds. 

The Fleur de Luce being one. 

In the letters of Sir Francis de 

Sales, who was contemporary with 

Shakespeare, he says: “Chanty com- 

pnses the seven gifts of the Holy 

Ghost, and resembles a beautiful Fleur 

de Luce which has six leaves whiter 


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than snow and m the center the pretty 
lifile golden hammers. 

Chaucer also seems to think the 
Fleur de Lys was a lily m his lines: 

“His nekke was white as the Fleur de Lys. 

Spencer separates them in his pretty 
lines: 

“Strow mee the grounde with DafFadown 
Dilies, 

And cowslips, and king cups, and loved 
Lilies, 

The pretfcy Pauncee and the Chevisaunce, 

Shall match with the fayre Floure 
Delice.' 

Lord Bacon also speaks of them as 
two distinct flowers, as: “In Ap ril 
follow the double white violets, the 


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wall flower, tlie cowslips, the Fleur 
de Lys and Lilies of all nature. 

But all of the botanical writers of 
the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries 
identify the Ins as the Fleur de Lys, 
and with this judgment, most of our 
modern writers agree. 

Nature has bestowed upon us 
scarcely a sweeter flower than the 
Lily of the Valley, sometimes called 
the May Lily, and m some country 
villages, “the Ladder to Heaven/' 
This flower in the floral language sig¬ 
nifies the return of happiness, doubtless 
m allusion to the happy season of the 
year, the Maytide. 


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Lilies 


(FIjf Utly of tiff Uallfjj 

Croley 

White bud! that m meek beauty so dost 
lean 

Tbe cloistered cbeek as pale as 
moonlight snow, 

Tbou seem'st beneath thy huge, high 
leaf of green 

An Eremite beneath bis mountain s 
brow, 


^iVhite bud! thou rt emblem of a 
lovelier thing. 

The broken spirit that its anguish 
bears 

To silent shades and there sits offering 
To Heaven, the holy fragrance of 
its tears. 


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HO does not love tins 
pure emblem of sweet¬ 
ness and modesty, for: 

“No flower amid tke 
garden fairer grows. 
Than the sweet Lily of the Vale. 

Or, as Barton daintily sings its 
praises, 

“The Lily of the Vale whose virgin 
flowers. 

Scent every hreeze beneath its leafy 
howers.' 

Its natural state was to grow wild 
and in profusion along tke skady hanks 
of lakes and streams, in woods and 
valleys, kut it is now quite rare in this 
form. Its honeylike fragrance is 



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almost oppressive, although the odor is 
said to be a certain antidote for head¬ 
ache. It is also connected with super¬ 
stition, as the peasantry of England 
regard it as unlucky to transplant a 
bed of these flowers; and there is still 
an idea that when one has injured 
one s finger, to apply a lily leaf, as it 
is said the one side will heal and the 
other draw. (^Ve were never told 
which side would do the one and 
which the other.) 

Gerarde said that the flowers of 
the Lily of the Valley being close 
stopped up m a glass, put into an anthill 
and taken away again a month after— 


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“Ye stall find a liquor in tke glass 
wkick being outwardly applied, kelp- 
etk tke gout. But even if tke re 
were any virtue in tkese practices, it 
would ke a pity to destroy tkis beauti¬ 
ful, ckaste flower, and I would ratker 
admire it as tke 

Dainty wkite Lily, dressed as a bride. 
So sweet and so modest, and scented 
beside. 

July yields us a plant botk perfect 
in flower and foliage m tke form of 
tke Meadow Lily. It is a genuine de- 
ligkt to wade knee-deep into some 
meadow among tke myriad stems 
wkick are surrounded by circles of 


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lance-like leaves and crowned with 
nodding lilies, so bell-like and tremu¬ 
lous that they suggest the possibilities 
of tinkling music too ethereal for 
mortal ears. These flowers are yel¬ 
low, thickly spofled with brown, and 
within the flower cups the stamens 
are heavily laden with brown pollen. 
AVTien the mower lays low whole 
acres of these lilies, together with 
clover, daisies and buttercups, one be¬ 
wails such a massacre of the innocent 
flowers, hut as they lie heaped one 
upon another m the hot sunshine, 
their sweetness is scattered abroad 
with every breeze and one is consoled 
with the thou gtt. 


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Tkey were lovely and pleasant m 
tkeir lives, and in death tkey are not 
divided. 

We can kut love tkem as innocent 
flowers of tke field, springing up from 
tke eartk, witkout tke cultivation tkat 
many sister flowers kave kestowed 
upon tkem; for tkese flowers of nature 
revel only m God' s pure sunskme, rain 
and air. We love tkem for tkeir 
nativity from a source of purely 
natural environment. 

Brown spotted lilies, dasies, buftercups 
and clover; 

Eack one made by our Father s band. 

In effort we seek tbis wide world over. 
But to find tbis sweetness in meadow- 
land. 


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Lilies 


Tins lily resembles our Tiger Lily 
wbicb is a species of Turks Cap, and 
was brought from Asia. In its na¬ 
tural state the Turks Cap is the tallest 
plant of the Lily family and often has 
nearly one hundred flowers on a plant. 



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YMPHARA, better 

known as Water Lilies, 
Pond Lilies, or Water 
Nymphs, are found in 
lakes and rivers all over 
tke world and everyone remembers a 
time wken lie donned a large shade hat 
or honnet and set forth to gather these 
fragrant flowers. 

As the boat glided along one saw 
the lily pads turned under hy a swift 
current or a preceding hoat, just 
enough to expose the deep pink of 
their lower sides and thick among 
them floated the placid, queenly flow¬ 
ers with their pink and green tinged 


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sepals and snowy petals which pass 
imperceptibly into tlie center of golden 
stamens. 

The water lilies that glide so pale. 

As if with constant care 

Of the treasures which they hear; 

For - those ivory vases hold. 

Each, a sunny gift of gold. 

How calm and peaceful they look 
as they lie in their watery heds with 
a grace and dignity all their own. 


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Hater Elites 

E. R. B. 


Misty moonlight, faintly falling 
o er the lake at even tide. 

Shows a thousand gleaming lilies. 

On the rippling waters wide. 

White as snow the circling petals 
Cluster round each golden star. 

Rising, falling with the waters. 

Moving, yet at rest they are. 

Winds may blow, the skies may darken 
Rain may pour and waves may swell 
Deep beneath the changeful eddies 
Lily roots are fastened well. 


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And as Tennyson put it in his preffy 
verse: 


©tj? (Eloshuj Stlg 

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up. 
And slips into the hosom of the lake; 

So fold thyself, my dearest, thou and slip 
Into my hosom and he lost in me. 



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HE purest and most 
regal of all the lilies is 
the Lillium Harnsn 
commonly termed the 
Easter Lily; no doubt 
tbis flower is used during tbe 
Eastertide more extensively tban any 
other flower, because it is m its glory 
at tbis time and seems especially ap¬ 
propriate for tbe occasion. 

Tbe Easter Lily, of all children of 
tbe Spring, 

Tbe palest, fairest, too, where fair 
ones are. 

c Ike beautiful white trumpet-like 
blossoms seem formed to sound tbe 



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praises of tke Risen Lord, and kave 
keen used for years as a tkank-offermg 
to Him, in decorating tke Ckurckes, 
and komes on Easter Sunday. It is a 
fit emblem of tke Resurrection; tke 
pure wkite petals representing tke spot¬ 
less body and tke golden stamens 
witkm typifying tke soul sparkling 
witk Divine ligkt. 


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Eastpr Utttea 

Oil! dearest bloom tbe seasons know 
Lilies of tbe Resurrection blow. 

Our bope and faith restore. 

And through the biflernees of death. 
And loss and sorrow, breathe a hreath 
Of life, forevermore. 

c Die thought of love immortal hlends 
With fond remembrances of friends. 
In you. Oh, sacred lily flowers; 

By human love made doubly sweet. 
The heavenly and the earthly meet 
The heart of Christ and ours. 


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As we enter the dimly lighted 
Churches Low beautiful they look 
decked witb these queenly blossoms 
m profusion everywhere, which sug¬ 
gest Angels in their spotless white and 
perfumed garments, filling the abode 
with a heavenly purity and fragrance. 
After serving their purpose in this 
way, they perform a second mission in 
bringing joy to the hearts of multi¬ 
tudes of helpless beings who were 
unable to a#end the beautiful services 
of the day. 

We cannot tell which Lily was 
meant by Chnst in His comparison of 
King Solomon, and the Lily. If He 


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refers to the glorious splendor of the 
King, it would suggest the red Syrian 
Lily of Pliny, and possibly as lilies 
are not a conspicuous feature of Pal¬ 
estine, the red anemone with which 
all the hillsides of Galil ee are covered 
in the Spring, may have suggested the 
figure, or it might have been tke 
Grown Imperial, which by its name 
speaks of majesty and power. We 
all know however, that there is a 
moral lesson taught m the words : 

“Consider the lilies of the field, 
how they flourish, they toil not, 
neither do they spin, yet Solomon m 
all his glory, was not arrayed as one 
of these/ 


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If we stop to consider tlie lilies of 
the field, we know that they do toil 
as they go on modeling the beautiful 
flowers and painting the exquisite col¬ 
oring, hut neither do they fret nor 
worry, smiling gloriously as they toil, 
knowing of God s fatherly care for 
all His creatures. 


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Easter and Lilies 


(Eottstfor tl;p HUiea 

How fair tke lilies witk tkeir noiseless 
tells! 

Like perfumed censors gracefully 
tkey swing 

^^kose incense sweet impels 

Soft airs to waft tkeir grateful offering. 

As keauteous tkey stand 

Fresk from tke Maker s kand. 

Wkat raiment! Tkougk “tkey spin 
not, Solomon 

In all kis glory was not so arrayed. 

Tke eartk and mist and sun 

Unfolding knlliant dyes, nek vesture 
made 

Wkose loveliness became 

Expressed m tkat soft name. 


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In unsullied robes. He walked the earth. 
Not in costly vesture kings should 
wear. 

But of symbolic worth. 

How blessed must have been the lilies 
fair 

His sacred feet bad pressed, 

^SiVben He those words addressed. 


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